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THE SUXDAT OREGONIAX, 'PORTLAND, 3IARCH 4, 1917.
; l. YOUTTTS BITTERNESS TOWARD
LIFE SOFTENS AFTER YEARS
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1 ' Girl's Heart, Broken by Man's Cruelty, Mended When She Learns Expe-
v rience of Woman Who Actually Won Him for Husband.
-"'; BY MART INEZ MARTIN.
'. VHE was the type of woman, from
-; whom you would least expect a
. . ' Declaration of Independence. If
":.. she had lived a generation or two ago
' ihe would have submitted meekly to
'.-.he bullying of her lord and master
-'. , ."lind at last Joined the ranks of Mar-,
- .yrs to the Cause of Matrimony. But i
. . .his Is the Woman's era and the .germ
')! self-government found Its way. Into
sven little Mrs. John's mental makeup.
! Mrs. John's husband was of well-'-raown
Human Sponge variety. For
.."io better reason than that he hap
: .oened to be a man be soaked up all
- " i- he love and service and sacrifice his
.' : a-ife poured out at his feet as no more
' " rhan his lordly due. but In all the years
,; ?f their married life It had never oc-
, .burred to him that he was not fulflll-
., ng his whole part of the contract by
Just letting her share his lot. His
.'word was the law under his roof and
" alraself the last court of appeals.
-. i For Instance, while he never scrupled
. ' show his admiration for the good
. ; ooking. Intelligent women of their ao-
'' 3uaintance. he cherished a prejudice
-,' -'galnst all Women's Clubs and the Suf
. -. Trage movement, holding stoutly with
the conservative old-fogy sentiment
.that the woman's sphere lsjn the home.
. ' '-' 3o. although he was making strides In
- - "Ms profession and keeping abreast with
-ihe advance of the times, his wife had
, . "fallen behind because of the bars his
"prejudice had put across her path.
. - . .- Neither did John approve the mod
vn fashions of false hair and "rats."
. .' . .he wearing of short skirts and low
.'. 'Bollars, although be always displayed
' his best courtesies to the moat modish
.- women he met. Consequently Mrs.
John, after the Illness that made her
' ' hair fall out. had to go around look-
' 1 . 'Jngr 10 years older because of her
". "scanty locks.
Hi. John Revolt.
,' ". At last Mrs. John, seeing th Injus
tice and inconsistency of her hus
. . ."band's position, woke op. It was a
' little thing that aroused her. Just one
' . little last straw that broke the back
-". '. -of her submission, but It was a dls-
' ,-tlnct call to arms. Her husband's
,- ...dominating Influence had crushed out
whatever of originality or Independence
' 'the might have had, and she now rec-
. -agnized herself as merely a shadow a
.V'-weak contemptible shadow of this man
' .'whose wHl had been her law all these
. years. Her friends seemed to have lost
-.. '-Interest in her because Bhe had fallen
'-'-. out of step with the broader actlvi-
,les of their lives, and as all the social
. life of the town centered In the Wom-
en's Clubs, she found herself being left
: -V . out of everything.
. Being a woman, and a weak one, aha
. ". (Chose the weapon of weakness she
'- I .'tneaned. Baying nothing to her hus-
.-.".band she took her courage In both
'-.'hands and Joined a Club. It was the
..'. .largest, most aggressive Club In the
" town and went in for Clvio lmprove-
- " ment and the discussion of all the po-
- '":. lltical and social problems of the day.
.'-. , Big, burning questions were debated
by earnest, broad-minded women, and
;t here Mrs. John found an outlet for all
- t the pent-up ardor and enthusiasm of
A , ' her nature. John, of course, took the
'.- " newspapers off to the office with, him
- in the morning and never thought to
trtng them home in the evening, but
. 'Mrs. John found she could save ourta
. hour or two of her dally routine and
y-sret down to the library during the
-; i day, where a new world of magazines
' -m and papers lay before her.
; ' Often as she sat opposite her big,
r . self-complacent husband at the table
. . she longed to open her heart to htm
;.;,' and ask him his views upon the ques
'.tlons she heard discussed at the Club,
- vibut his unqualified disapproval of all
i-' ." .Women's Clubs would probably lead to
'.his forbidding her to take any lnter-;--
est, much less belong herself, so she
- ; -. held her peace, but kept on reading
' . and studying along the lines that had
. all these past years been beyond her
pale of precinct.
.. . ' . : Perhaps it was Just this zest for the
- s . j forbidden fruit that put the woman on
". her mettle. At any rate It was not
long before she was recognized as be
' lng one of the best workers In the
Club. To her surprise she was In time
elected to fill an office in the Civics
Study branch.' and to. her still greater
surprise she found it a fine exhilarat
ing thing to stand before her class of
fellow-students and address the as
semblage. False' Hair la Worn by Mrs. John.
On one memorable occasion after
having made a little speech that had
entailed a great deal of study and re
search, she followed the suggestion of
the president and offered her paper
for publication in a magazine. If she
could have thrown her arms around
her fat, complacent John and shouted
for Joy when her article was accepted
and paid for her cup of happiness
would have ' been full, but having
learned her lessons during all the bit
ter years that had gone she kept her
own. counsel and went on living her life
In her owik; way. This money, being
her own. Bhe felt. she could use as she
chose. Whereupon slie went to a hair
dresser and - bought the false hair her
soul had longed and fainted for as she
had sat and drawn comparisons be
tween her own scanty locks and the
glory of her fluffy co-members of the
Monday-Tuesday Club. Now, at last,
she was on an equal footing with the
best of them. The last barrier of dis
similarity waa broken down. Now,
with an ease and poise unknown, she
faced her audience or presided In the
Chair serene in the consciousness of
her pompadour.
There were stirring times In the
dub when a representative of the Na
tional Federation came West to visit
the local branches. A- reception' was
planned, to which were Invited many
representative citizens of the town,
and It was to be made a brilliant af
fair. .Here poor Mrs. John flinched at
the thought of the reception, for where
a home-made shirtwaist was not in.
order she was not able to appear. After
her wedding dress went out of style
she had never had an evening gown,
and during the years that followed It
had been laid away, destined with a
morbid self-pity to be her burial robe.
But now the self-pity that had brooded
over the day of burial robes was lost
In the demands of the vital present.
With a sudden determination she
pounced upon that long, white satin
gown, ripped It from stem to stern, and
had It dyed a rank and riotous pink.
Whereupon her cold remains might go
hang for a burial robe! And when it
was remodeled she directed that It be
made as short of skirt and scant of
sleeve as was consistent with modesty
and good taste. Then when the presi
dent sent word to her that she would
not be able to Introduce the speaker
of the evening and asked her if she,
as vice-president, could be relied upon
to take her place, she promptly agreed,
feeling ready and equal to doing It. '
Such trifling details as going out In
the evening without the knowledge
and consent of her lord and master had
been left to take care of themselves,
he was usually out In the evening him
self. In fact, so full was her mind of
the larger interests these little details
were beginning to fall into their right
ful places. She watched hlra covertly
that evening at dinner as visions o( the
pink-clad vice-president floated be
tween them. 6he was absent-minded
and Inattentive to his objections about
the crust of the biscuits it was really
a small matter whether he liked them
this way or that when the other half
the world was bleeding and dying in
the trenches with no biscuits at all.
To 'her surprise John condescended
to tell her where he was going that
evening, with a sweeping denunciation
of all Women's Clubs, and adding that
this lot of ranting, addle-pated women
were a travesty upon the sex. The little
vice-president greeted this remark
with a laugh values were getting
wonderfully clear to her lately, but she
made no explanations, why should she?
Dinner No Talkfeat.
Mentally waving the long, lustrous
false "switch" that stood In her mind
for emancipation marital tyranny and
the breaking down of barriers between
herself and her advanced fellow-towns
women, Mrs. John finished her dinner
In silence. There was a growing sense
of self-sufficiency on his wires Dart.
John had been noticing lately, ankl
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oonld not explain. Time was when his
comments upon her biscuits would al
most have brought tear, to her eyes,
now she seemed wholly indifferent,
rather amused than otherwise.
There had also been a sort of nervous
effort on her part to please that had
some times annoyed him and brought
a crusty answer, recently there had
been occasions when she might have
pleased him very much by a little serv
ice which she had not seemed to see,
and strangely enough, be had not felt
quite free to call her attention to It.
When at last he pushed back his chair
and arose from the table she was still
toying with her cup, lost In thought
perhaps she was touched by her biscuit
failure, after all. At any rate, she did
not see. or appeared not to see, the
long, quizzical look he bent upon her,
the first time he had seemed to notice
her with any Interest for years.
' A few hours later the meeting of the
Monday-Tuesday Club was called to or
der. A. little woman. In a modish pink:
gown, short enough to display trim
pink ankles, took the stand. Her
cheeks, whether by fair means or foul,
as fresh-colored as a girl's, and a low,
waving pompadour gave a soft round
ness of contour the scant, straight
locks had stolen.
"Men and women fellow-citizens "
the vice-president began ln full, well
measured tones that showed 'no trace
of nervousness.
John looked and heard, then looked
again and blinked. Something In the
speaker reminded him of a girl he had
known 10 or 15 years ago. but. pshaw
nonsense she was a different type
of woman.
"With a few well-turned remarks,
rounded off by a timely little anecdote
which sent a ripple of good feeling
over the house, the vice-president pre
sented the speaker of the evening and
retired, with much applause, to the back
of the stage, where she took her seat.
John did not hear much of the ad
dress. This girl In pink did seem
enough like Kitty to be a younger sis
ter. Poor Kit had developed into such
a colorless personality marriage Is a
great lottery, to be sure you never
can tell whether your wife is going
to turn out a nonetlty or keep her looks
and spirit like soma women he could
mention.
When the address was over and the
reception In progress John sought an
opportunity to meet this girl in pink,
but -She was busy meeting and intro
ducing people to the guest of honor,
and seemed eq in demand he was not
able -to get near her until the crowd
began to thin out a bit. When at last
he came In line to be presented to the
representative of the Federation the
girl offered him a cool hand and smil
ing face as she said, "Good evening.
John," and turned to say, "Let me pre
sent my husband " Bhe was stand-
I ing on a low platform which bfought
liher eyes on a level with his own. hon
est, straightforward eyes they
too, which did not flinch.
As John escorted this attractive little
w,oman home, helping her gallantly
over the Imaginary roughnesses, he
seemed very awkward and 111 at ease,
but the tenor of his thoughts was re
vealed when at the door he bent and
looked Into her face. The confused
blur of years swept away, he caught
up this dainty little figure in the plnK
gown and with an onrush of the old
feeling ho said as he had done years
before, "Oh. Kitty, I love you will you
be my wife?"
And the vice-president, looking hlra
In the eyes, laughed and said, "Don't
be silly, John, I am your wife, but X
do want to be your friend."
LATEST DESIGN FOR BEAUTIFUL CROCHET LUNCHEON SET
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Linen for centerpiece measures 14 inches ; for
plate doily, 8 inches ; for tumbler or cup and sau
cer doily. 4 inches. -
, Buttonhole around the linen centers first, then
make lace edging and sew lace on edgo of cen
ters. '
Crochet a chain long enough to go around edge
of centerpiece loosely.
First row make d. c in every t of eh. with
ch. 2 between all around.
Second row D. c over every space with ch.
2 between all around.
Third, fourth, and fifth rows 2 d. C over
every other space with ch. 2 between.
Sixth row , ch. 20, skip 1 space, sL St.-over
next space ; repeat from around (the number of
loops of 20 ch. of this row must be a number di
visible by 5). " . -.
Seventh row , sL st. over center of ch. of 20;
ch. 5, sL st. over narrow space between two
leaves of novelty braid; ch. 5, sL st. over next
ch. 20; ch. S tL st, over same narrow apace be
tween two leaves of novelty braid; ch. 5, sL st.
over next ch. ch. 20; ch 5, sL st. over bottom loop
of first novelty braid leaf ; ch. 5, sL st. over next
loop of ch. 20 ; ch. 10 sL st. over top loo of first
and second leaves at once; ch. 10, sL St. over
next ch. 20; ch. 5, sL st. over bottom loop of
second leaf; ch. 5; repeat froia around; join
and break off"" thread. Join braid together
neatly.
Eighth row Fasten thread over narrow space
between" two leaves on outer edge of novelty
braid; , ch. 10, sL st. over same space; ch. 10,
sL st. over same space; ch. 10, sL st. over same
space ; ch. 10, sL st,' over same space ; ch. 8, sL
st. over second loop of leaf; ch. 10, si. st. over
bottom loops of 2 leaves; ch.,10,.sL st. over next
to the top loop of second leaf; ch. 8, sL st.
over next narrow 'space between. 2 leaves; re
peat from around, j. r . ;
Ninth row SI. st. over center of first loop of
ch. 10; , ch. 6, make a picot; ch. 3, si. st. over
next loop ; repeat from around and join.
For the edging of the two smaller doiHev
crochet the same as for the centerpiece, with .
the exception of leaving out rows third, fourth,
and fifth. '
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